The Civil Service College has won a contract worth approximately 140,000 pounds to support reform and development at the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance. Bulgaria stabilised its economy after the collapse of its currency two years ago. The job of the College team is to help the ministry to build on their success by developing ways of identifying necessary change, and then managing the change process. This includes devising a new mission statement and providing assistance with human resources and information systems. The work will be funded by the European Union.

Young people in Cornwall are getting jobs more easily because the Employment Service and the Rural Development Commission have joined their strategies to respond to a survey of unemployed 18-24 year olds. The survey found, not unsurprisingly for a rural area, that the main barrier to employment was transport. What was surprising was that 49% of respondents listed transport as the main problem.